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HENRY O. WEEDEN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO PHILLIPS 8t VEEDEN, OF SAME PLACE.

FLUSHlNG APPARATUS FOR TANKS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 274,156, dated March 20, 1883.

Application filed October 25, 1882. (N model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY O. WEEDEN, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk, of the State of Massachusetts, have invented a new; and uset'ul Improvement in Flushing Apparatus for Tanks; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figural is a top view, and Fig. 2 a longitudinal section, of a tank provided with my invention, the nature of which is defined in the claim hereinafter presented, its object being to gradually close the valve of a watercloset or urinal tank after the raising of such valve from its seat, such being in order for a sufficient quantity of water to flow from the tank, to efiect, as occasion may require, the

flushing of the water-closeu or the urinal or series of urinals.

In the drawings, A denotes the tank, whose induction-tube (not shown) is to be supposed, as usual, to be supplied with a cock, and with a float thereto, for closing it when the water in the tank may have attained its normal altitude.

Leading out of the tank is an overflow-pipe, B, which opens into the discharge-pipe O or flushing-educt' of the tank,immediately below 3 the top thereof, on which is a valve-seat, (a A valve, D, rests on the said seat, and is provided with a stem, 1), to slide vertically in a guide, 0, extending diametrically across the seat. The ednet O is to lead to a water-closet how] or to a urinal ora conduitconnecting one or more of such urinals, the same being s0 that the water discharged from the tank may flush the said bowl or urinal or urinals.

Over the valve and attached to a stem, d,

4 connected with the valve, and arranged con:

5 said lever, from one to the other of two abut- .trom, as shown.

ments or stops, h 2', extending upward there- The front abutment, t, has a projection, 70, to extend over the end portion, 1, of the open lever G, in manner as represented. g The said end portion, 1, is of sut'ficient thickness or size to cause, by its weight and that of the rest of the shorter arm of the lever G, such shorter arm to overbalance the longer arm of such lever and the weight of the wire' thereof, in order for the shorter arm by its weight to depress the lever into the position shown in Fig. l; 7

To the rear or longer arm of the lever G a wire, m, connected directly or indirectly with the water-closet handle, is attached. On pull- .6 ing up such handle the longer arms of both levers F and G will be depressed, and the valve D, with the cup IE, will be raised relatively to the valve-seat a, and the ball K will, through the action of gravity, roll upon the l lever F from the abutment t to the abutment h, the cup or bowl being filled with water. On the handle being dropped, thelever G will, by its heavier arm, be at once returned to its former position-viz, that shown in Fig. l; but the lever F by the ball K will be preveiited from returning, and will hold up the cup E filled with water urit'il the water in the tank may descend sufficiently below the top of the cup for the weight of the cup and its load to So overcome the power of the ball, to keep the lever F from returning to its position as shown in Fig. 1. On the cup being depressed, the valve will be closed and the ball will roll from the abutment h to the abutment z, the projec- 8 tion k restingupon the part I. From the above it will be seen that when the valve is closed the levers are in positions as shown in the drawings; also, that on pulling up the handle of the water-closet so as to pull downward thewire at, both levers will be tilted backward, the ball will roll from the abutment i to the abutment k, the valve will be raised off its seat, and the cup E, full of water, will rise with the valve, and. by the ball 5 will be held from falling until the water in the tank may have descended sufficiently for'th'e weight of the cup and its load to cause the valve to fall and the lever F to he tilted to the position shown in Fig. l, the lever G having prevFously been tilted-back, so as to offer no mmlerauce to the tall of the cup and the valve. While the valve may he kept off its seat water will be discharged from the tank. In case 5 of leakage of the induction cock or valve, the

water due to such will escape by the overflow-pipe B. The head of water in the tank,

will keep the valve D closed upon its seat while the ball K may be resting against the 1o abutment 'i.

I claim- For use with the tank and its eduction-va-lve, in manner as explained, the combination of the bowl E, the open Weighted lever G, the ball K. and the open lever F, having the abutx5 ments h t, and projection It, all being arranged, applied, and to operate substantially as set forth.

HENRY C. WEEDEN. Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, S. N. PIPER. 

